GAIN Working Paper Series 30 - Innovating for safer foods
This GAIN working paper describes the process used by EatSafe in Nigeria to identify and design innovative interventions to improve the safety of nutritious foods in traditional food markets.
Food Safety Attitudes and Practices in Hawassa, Ethiopia: A Quantitative Formative Assessment
To understand knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to food safety behaviors, EatSafe surveyed 300 consumers and vendors in Hawassa, Ethiopia, as well as structured observations of vendor behaviors.
The Art of Application – Food Safety Innovations For Traditional Markets
Virtual, Global
In this second webinar of a two-part series, EatSafe will highlight the importance of innovative solutions in food safety, and their applicability to low- and middle- income countries, specifically in traditional markets and along the food value chain.
Evaluation of Consumer and Vendor Behaviors in a Traditional Food Market in Hawassa, Ethiopia
EatSafe conducted three data collection activities, including interviews, observations, and a randomized experiment, to understand consumers’ and vendors’ food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices in Hawassa, Ethiopia.
Ethiopian Innovator Emerges as Winner of USAID-Funded Food Safety Challenge
After receiving 750 applications from Nigeria and Ethiopia, one winner emerged from the Grand Finale of EatSafe's Innovation Challenge.
Unhealthy diets are jeopardising our health
Gallup, Harvard University, and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) have today published a new report on diet quality entitled Measuring What the World Eats.It is the first report from the Global Diet Quality Project, with data based on the Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ), a standard questionnaire which takes just five minutes to complete.
The People of Traditional Markets: EatSafe's Story Sourcing in Hawassa, Ethiopia
EatSafe conducted a Story Sourcing activity, or the semi-formal process that uses journalistic techniques to gather stories directly from the audience of interest, to gather stories from traditional food market vendors and consumers in Hawassa, Ethiopia.
EatSafe Interventions in Nigeria
To increase consumer demand for improved food safety, EatSafe is testing four interventions that seek to change consumers and vendor behaviors in two traditional food markets in Northwestern Nigeria.